Rugby chads i found what we been needing for a while... A rugby ballon d'or
Half the time theres a rugby world cup i gotta look up which code of rugby it is then which code of rugby i need to give a fuck about
>>157101722Union dumbass its always unionLeague isnt international like union, canada plays union, the league world cup is not even 1/3 as big as the union one is
>>157101651We have thathttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRL_Golden_Boot_Award
>>157101993they should give it to the best nrl player, international league is a meme
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>>157101722This year it’s league, next year it’s union.The world cup this year was going to be in France but the French government withheld some funding, I’m not sure about the details but definitely some shady shit going on with the union clubs getting involved in politics over there. So it was moved to Australia and reduced from 16 to 10 teams, which sucks, but the matches will be good. Australia aren’t unbeatable and there are strong challengers from New Zealand, Samoa, England, Tonga, and the dark horse Lebanon
>>157102602>LebanonWait for real?
>>157101651should have done this 20 years ago when people cared about rugby
>>157102607They qualified by reaching the quarterfinals at the previous wc
>>1571026152006? Nah dude rugby is way more important now>>157102639Well thats a kino storyline
>>157102652yeah sorry you're probably rightguess i was just thinking from a nz perspective, no one here cares about it anymore
>>157102090>they should give it to the best nrl playerhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dally_M_Medal
>>157102756Some nz guy in the last /rug/ said it was cause you dont dominate anymore, thats lame
>>157101722Union is the better world cup but League is the easier code for NFL/CFL fans.
>>157102788Rugby union is over officiated these days. The game sometimes stops for several minutes while the TMO decides whether or not to yellow card a guy for tackling too hard and disallow a try that would have been scored anywayAlso because we play a boring and slow style compared to teams like France and South Africa, and none of our players have personality like they did in 2000s and 2010sMore and more people are jumping ship to league, but I suspect a pretty significant number of this cohort are just gambling addicts rather than true enthusiasts of either code
>>157102806Maybe at first but the last usa games like usa vs spain last week had lot of people in the stadium and they get it, good fans>>157102823I agree with both things and i hate that union is losing ground to league in nz
>>157102874Union is more popular over here for sure. Not that either is big here but union is more known. However, I do think most gridiron fans could easily slide into being league fans.
what rugby unironically needs is more mediatv shows, films, video games. soccer was always big, but stuff like the fifa games and ted lasso helped it finally crack markets like north america. gridiron video games and films have helped create an overseas audience for that game, same with ice hockey media.get some good movies and fun video games out and it'll grow the audience
>>157101722what's the one that doesn't have retarded scrums?
>>157103062it needs to fucking merge already. Two different rule systems would kill any sport
>>157107269what's the difference between the 2 systems?
>>157107269One is like 1/5 the size of the other thoPeople think rugby is union its simple
>>157107269League is a meme, not much different than futsal existing. Doesn’t hurt rugby too much I don’t think.
>>157107349>era of search engines>era of AI>still can't fucking do the research himselfbri'ish posters everybody
>>157103062True a good elite videogame would grow rugby a lot
Media and storylines is what rugby needs
